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It absolutely matters. Machines are orders of magnitude faster than they were 20 years ago; most software isn't doing much more than software did 20 years ago.
by TeMPOraL 2y ago
It absolutely matters. Machines are orders of magnitude faster than they were 20 years ago; most software isn't doing much more than software did 20 years ago. And no, collaborative editing isn't be-all, end-all, nor does it explain where all that performance is lost.
Many optimizations have bad ROI because users' lives are an externality for the industry. It's Good and Professional to save some people-weeks in development, at the cost of burning people-centuries of your users' life in aggregate. And like with pollution, you usually can't pin the problem on anyone, as it's just a sum of great many parties each doing tiny damage.
- pixl97 2y ago>most software isn't doing much more than software did 20 years ago This isn't exactly true, but some of the potential reasons are pretty bad. Software turning into an ad platform or otherwise spying on users has made numerous corporations wealthier than the gods at the expense of the user is probably one of the most common ones.
- joshstrange 2y ago> Machines are orders of magnitude faster than they were 20 years ago; most software isn't doing much more than software did 20 years ago. That seems like an absurd statement to the point I wonder if I’m missing something.